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Statistics for Experimenters

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Microsoft Excel can be a powerful tool for statistical analysis. This chapter discusses a very small subset of these tools. The main focus is on the treatment of variability associated with data measurements. Some of the functions introduced are: AVERAGE, DEVSQ, FREQUENCY, STDEV, TDIST, TINV, and TTEST. This chapter discusses descriptive statistics, frequency distribution, and confidence limits. It compares the mean from two sets of measurements made on a set of samples. Set A is the measurement using one technique, while set B was obtained from another.

In the past there have been some criticisms of the algorithms used by Excel for its statistical functions. Significant improvements were ...

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